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WASHINGTON, January SO.-Tn the s -
nato, thc Finance Committee almost unani?
mously instructed tho chairman to report
adversely to the gold bill. ' This probably
< :n'.s t iougreseioual inf erforenco with gold
eales for this session.
Thc Senate Post -Office Committee will
report the Honee postal appropriations
without amendment.
A special despatch Rays it is noticeable
thai tlie dominant, party is breaking into
eli ; ?es-a portion of it daily l>eei>miiig
nor intimate with the President,
'.ie'. - ral Grant has been summoned by
tho Ne?- Orleans Riot Committee.
The New York 'Janes, ia a Washington
special, Bays it has the best authority for
savin:,' that the letter to tho London Tintes,
from its Washington correspondent, re?
ferred to in thc cible despatch, the other
day, contains nothing of tho kind attri?
buted ta it. In thc conversations with tho
President, ho dal not refer to Congress ".t
all.
The Impeachment Committee of tho
Southern Kepublican Association has pre?
pared a partial list oT witnesses on thc
impeachment cases, and will Hoon suggest
their programme of investigating the
charges.
A special d- spatch says the Kansas Le?
gislature will midoubtodly strike tho word
'?white'" from tho franchise la\rs.
An autograph latter from Juarez, dab ci
Durango, Jailnary I, expresses friendliness
to the Unit? >i ?Stat.-s, and .Ltr.'ti'ade for its
sympathy and encouragement. He ap?
prove. Sedgowick'is measures, at r?ldt:.::.o
ras. preventing Ortega's raid.
5Irs. M. ?'. Tanah j daughter of diaries
Carroll, of Carrol ton, died to-day.
Thc following is tire Btotley career; on t?? J
WASIMSOTON. January 2?-. i-'?'.. i-'uu A j
citizen i f th?! ("lilted ?SvUt.iu addressed a I
letter to thc ?Y' r-ielont. fr -tu Taris, in j
Europe last year, and had o, en-i >n tu M C I
the ministers and consuls of various cr ei
trios; and thar, most o? them wer?; bitterly |
hostile to tile President and l is adrninis
t r.ttioc. ii'- arid-?, that you do not protend 1
: . collet .ti dist;nut, as ho says you stylo it. !
at tl.<* ii side at's wind** c ?ndnet. That I
yea despise American Democracy, and1
1 mdlv prod .hu i'mt ti". Bwglish g'-nt?eman 1
is a linnie', ot' human perfection. Tliatthe 1
riHsiih t;'. has desoYtWl bia pUvigei? and 1
principles, in<?x?outkoA with Soward, ?h?, I
you suv, ia la lpl.-ss?y degraded. Your dc- j
nial ? r eon fir ra? t?o ri is r< one.^ted.
(Signed) WM." H sr,W V ! tD
Motley repises that Iiis fer ; impulse
of the troth of tire reports: hut ot. rsr'.h-.r |
reSiection, wished that there should bc rio j
doubt as to Ids petition! scntitrtcntSi He
always helieve?d tiiat strong gnaraVitf.?cs'
should be taken again t a recurrence <>r
tho r< b; lie ii and the rc-? blahlishraent o?
. laverv. bet?re thc ncc Te.T Rt .it cs should
be re-admiltbtl to Congress*. Tl- tra? lat
teriv isnditU'd to thd'opinion ilia! ihe no
l>lcs"t ?awl s afc sr course wonkl be aiiarnend
mcui to thc Constitution prohibiting dis
tinction i.? race or e..?ur, in iratu-utse,
t"g..ih, r wita a general amnesty. 'i'itO'
opini ais. i : tic pricey j : ia own h-ru-jo.
were held: .md, t., orr ..-i..:i:.! \:-.v rasin
visitors, he had not concealed them. He
le ver thought^ because hu was'a public
servant of the American pi opie, lie should
1. . deprive*! of thc: right of disenssing,
within his .w:> wa IN. ti:.- grandest subjects
that eau interest fre. mea. He had always
I" en careful, in such conversations, to
avoid expressions of ill -rc-pi et towards
tho IV tsident or Cabinet. Ile: warmly de?
nies the ether allegations, and, in conclu?
sion, to;.dors his resignation, post-marked
Cotigr?-B?l<-.i:al.
WAMUNOION, January 30. in the House,
the Committee un Foreign Affairs wore in?
structed to inquire into thc expediency of
Congressional di ch>ration il at naturaliza?
tion exempts from military s i-si.-" to a
t sit ive Govern ment.
Mr. Steven* iutrodac-d a school bill for
tie L>i*-tri?.r Congress to pav one-third of
thc expense: no one to vote "who neglects
sending their children or wards to thc
: ChOOl.
The bill regulating Indian affairs elicited
a long debate.
A communication relative to thc affairs
of tho Secretary of War was referred t > '.bo
Reconstruction Committee.
The Committee on Printing wire in?
structed to inquire, by what authority the
Government advertisements were publish?
ed in the Washington Hepubiican.
In thc Senate, tho credentials of John A.
Veston, Senator from Alabama, were
tabled. _
Tho Nebraska veto was read and ordered
t > be printed and laid on tho table.
Tho Finance Committee reported ad?
versely to tho H.ms.: tiold bill. 'The tal irt
bill was resumed. Tbs Senate is in ses
si in to-night.
COMMERCIAL AM) FINANCIAL..
NEW Youri. .Tann irv ?Jo. Money 7 per
rent. Gold y>h. Exchange sixty days
;?: sight Oj. Flour 10<i/j*i0c. lower. Wheat
'j tc. lower. Corn 2(?.';:. a. lower. Cats lc.
lower. Tori: lowor -new int ss ?20.25?20.37,
for Western; old MO. Cotton lirm and
quiet, at 3-Je. for middling upland. Stock
market improved le. shortly after t he open?
ing of. tho beard, btu afterwards mt so
st rong.:
7 P. M.-Gold 135. Cotton quiet, but
'rsi, v. :il? srlos of 1,000 bales-middling
uplands 34. Flonr irregular, and ir/'/.-iV.
h.wer- .State- $9.2Q(f\ 1.75; Western S9.20?
12.50; Soutlrern dull and droopftjg, r.t
i ! I 5U(?<>i6.25. Win at dnlb at :V<r:?c. lower.
Corn 2-'.3e. lower, with sales of 52,000
bushels- tai X'si Western il. 100-1.13. Cat ri
lc. lower -West, rn .".tic-oc:?: State fi7<$$>.
.'. later di snatch quotes gflld as closing at
JioBirr., Januarv 30. -Soles of cotton to
s p
.ur :ir.d '
hanged and quiet. Whiskey d'?'.!. sj
ia I omi. Tn-.ivjori- unchanged; li >!'d
irm. i?? i ce d slight.
tXiUsTA, Janna ry i ttfon er. ?>.-.
.1 iii.
WA wv tu. Jandary :!.'.- Tlc-. i? TOrfri( r
ede at ibo ( IK v. - plantation, mSorrth
' iinr.. The gpgroes rrfuse;' to variate
ontraef. A collision oec?rreo?iu which
ut. I. ii: n, o?' tho i?urean, was shot in
arm; lie returned the (ire, killing a
ro. it is reported ihn* th?? negroes
. Ca]it. limndt a prisoner. Col. Sibley,
1: severity nen. have gone to thc ?rene.
u'v'iiHPooiu January 30-Noon.- Cotton
i io t quiet and uncharged - middli'i:;
nds uteadv, tho opening price being
d.
Old Newspapers.
I^OR BALE a* thc
r r r"T vrx OFFICE.
?HOupx.- Ali ike Year Rmi nd thus'
describes what shoddy is:
.'Shoddy is.old wool made as good
as new. livery manufacturer keeps
a devil, a ravenous beast with a fear
fid set of teeth and au insatiable ap?
petite for old coats and old "trousers
-old anything that is made of wool.
Toss him an old garment, anil he will
tear it to piece* iu no time. The spun
and woven threads aro convened
into now threads tf; be woven once
more, into a piece of cloth. Cloth so
made with a mixture of new wool
looks very well. T defy you to tell
me which is shoddy cloth and which
is not. Wc all wear shoddy without
knowing it. For light wear, shoddy
cloth will serve* every purpose; but it
will not stand strain and exertion.
You must not attempt to practice
gymnastics in a pair of shoddy
trousers. Hore is the weakness of
shoddy--tho shortness of the staple.
\ou know now, if you did not. know
before, why the old clothes-man is so
eager and anxious to buy' any gar?
ment, however ragged, which is
composed entirely of wool."
[T'S DAKK.-The following beauti?
ful sentiments aro from Meister
Karl's Sketch Book, entitled the
"Night of Heaven." lt is full of
touching tenderness:
' 'J I i;-. dark when the honest and
honorable man sees the results of long
years swept Cruelly away-lry thc knav?
ish, heartless adversary. If is dark
when he feels tin* clouds <'i Sorrow
gather round and koo.vs that the
hopes aud happiness iu others are
..fading with his own. But in that hour
the memory of past integrity viii b^
a true consolation, and fissure him
even herc on earth of gleams of light
L?u Heave* . Iii:- .'ark - hen the dear
I voice of that sweet child ouco fondly
loved? is no more heard around in
j murmurs. l>ark when the light $>ut
1 taring feet no more resound without
the bhteshold, ?>r ase iud tey by ;-!<vp.
; up?! ti irs. Dark when s?riie well
lumwuijnir'itecnlls t?ie -train once oft
j alf ti i etd hy ehildish voice li-nv Rushed
in death! ]2lirknes& but only the
bgloom which now heralds the day?
spring, of immortality, and tito iuli
; nate light oi Heaven."
! Tho Cincinnati Chamhcr of Gom
I mcred has passed very emphatic reao
j bilious endorsing flu* cental system,
j which has been adopted by tho prin
i cipal cities of tho North, and is to go
i into operation on thc 1st of March
next. This is a iong st .;> toward the
, much needed decimal system of
weights and measures. The cental is
100 pounds of anything; and weights
will hereafter ho reckoned io co?tais
and pounds instead of bushels, peeks,
(jnaits, &e. In accordance with this
system, the weight of the barrel of
fleur, on recommendation of the
Buffalo Chamber of. Commerce, will
hereafter be two centals (tief) inst? .el
of 19G pounds. Those who remem?
ber what a task if was to learn how
many pounds of anything make a
bushel, will not regret the abolition
of su uncertain a standard.
Ct is related of a Persian King that
being at a hunting seat, he was about
to have some gani" dressed, and as
there was no sait, ti servant was sent
to a neighboring village, when the
monarch ordered him to pay the
price of the salt, that the exaction
might not become a custom and the
village desolated, ile was asked,
"From this trine what injurj- eau
ensue?"' and replied, "Oppression
was brought into the world from
small beginnings, which every new?
comer has increased, until it has
reached the present degree of enor?
mity. If the monarch were to eat a
single apple from the garden of a
peasaut, the servants would pull up
the tree by thc roois, and if tie Sul?
tan orders live oggs to bo taken by
force, hts soldiers will spit a thousand
fowls. The iniquitous tyrant re
; . . '.. Iii not, but the curses of man
j kind rest on him forever."
I Tur. SOUTHERN' RRUEVFTIND BEVK
I nr.-Thc bond?t given at tie- ??olli
1 day Street Theatre, on Saturday after
j noon, for the aid of the Southern
j Relief Fund, waa very largely attend
I ed, ladies and children especially,
j from all parts of tho city, being
? present. Thc house was tendered
j gratuitously by Mr. Ford and Mr.
Jefferson, and the company also
j gave their services as ti donation to
I the canso. The performance of Bip
I Van Winkle appeared to give the
[ greater^ satisfaction io ail. At the
? elo.se of li.o piece, Mr. Jefferson was
[ call-, d emt and presented with a beau
I ti ful bonnet, on receiving which he
made quite a neat and exceedingly
i appropriate little speech. The bene
I lit will yield quite a handsome, sum
1 rvf'lh* Kufferiu.- .?nh- of the
jT
I . - -v. ?- , -
? IJNGX?ISH Ii/AIUWATS. Tile J.ondoM
, ?ucl Noithvwestorn is th . longest rail
i way in Oro tt Bril.un, measuring
? 1,27 i: m il e?i. > also lo. ethe greatest
?annual receipt.^ over.^01,000,000.
i Tito Givat Western measures 1,25b*
Mini:-; the North-western, 1,205
miles; tho Grrjbat Eastern, 758 miles.
' During thu forty-ono years which
! have elapse;! .-.ince thc first railway
! was laid down in England, ?2,500,
i (K)!),0iK) in gold have boeninvested*iu
j railway capital, mid the various lilies
: now in operation measure li?,280
I milo.-, in length. English railway ex?
tension has for \ho present almost
, ceased. ' .
Education in the Texas University
i is given frea-o? charge.
{INQUEST.-?oroncr E. M.- Whiting
hej<? an inquest at the Upper Ward's
(!n:u'd Souse, .yesterday morning,
upon .tho bodies of two newly boru
Colorea infants, found /wrapped in a
towel, at the corner of Aiken and Co?
lumbus streets. They had been light?
ly buried, and were discovered and
disinterred by dogs. One had been
totally devoured, with tho exception
of the skull and a portion of the
back-bone. A policeman on bia
rounds discovered the dogs just in
time to prevent them frojn devouring
the second.- - Charleston Courier.
-? .
Coon SENSE. -It is better to sleep
in a room comfortably warm than it
is to sleep in a very cold room, pro?
vided there is good ventilation, for
the reason that less clothing is re?
quired to kee}) comfortable. The
less clothing consistent with comfort
the better, 'whether awake or asleep.
Warm air is just as good as cold air,
and ventilation is more easily secured
when there is a differ? ice of tempe?
rature between the air in the room
and that outside. Th-' best way of
warming and ve uti luting sleeping
rooms is to have an open grate fire
and open windows.
- - -t-.
A Northern eotemporary says a j
sister-in-law of the radical member of
Congress from Sn Joseph (Missouri) j
District, during the war, gratified her j
malignity by going out to see four j
Confederate youths handed, in cold |
blood, by jay Un Whets. The woman I
was enciente at MVe time, anti s??i?
utter a s >n was horn to her, whose j
.tongue lolls continually from his j
mouth, and whose neck bears? the I
frayed appearance and goes through J
final agentes ot sniloeation.
? ? - . j
As an index of thespiril of the two
wings of the army e jelc-iasiicd. we
may mention thc prayer oiiercd nu
"(behalf of Congr- o Yu, late Sunday. !
in Nt w Orleans, by two Methodist
ministers. The pastor of the Church
free from cowardice; t'l i.p-: mr of
t'.ej Ch ? rob Sou Mi. thai Cohirn-ss
might act with modi, ration ! A third
pastor, a Sou thurn Baptist prayed
I that the Loltl v.'ofdd bless fnb Pr? sf
I t<> the country.
TUE PUKSUU?N* v. - -lu the S? nate,
e-i Saturday, an important proposi?
tion was introduced by Mr. Trum?
bull, the .Chairman nf tho. Judiciary
Committee, which is designed to
make ineligible for '.he l'residency
any one who has t vcr hold the office.
It is, of course, offered tn an amend?
ment to the C?>nstitnlion. Mr. Wade
announced his purpose to press its
immediste passage, in order to give
opportunity for the Legislatur? s now
in session to act upon it.
-? . ^*
CitmeisM. Thc Xor-ic Aniericua
Review, for.January, cont.nus a sharp
criticism on Horace Greeley's "Ame?
rica], Conflict," in which occurs the
following: "Des?iing thc reader to
h.'ar in mind that wo would in no
wisc impugn Mr. Greeley's motives,
we are obliged to add, that the in?
stances in which he seems to forget
that he has undertaken to write a
history, not editorial articles for the
New York Tribeue, are neither few
nor unimportant."
When Governor Andrew seat the
Massachusetts girls to thc I'aoitie
coast to supply the want of femininity
in that region, he said that they need
not marry immediately, but could
find plenty to do in teaching the lit?
tle children. Anna Dickenson "can't
soe it." She says: "Where thc li ttl?
children were to come from, out of ii
population of 10,000 men, was more
than s!i?' could imagine; but she
thought that probably Gov. Andrew,
being a man, might be able lo do so."
SIIATU* PuAcrriCE. -Though a gen?
tleman in New York had buttoned
his over-coat up to his neck, a valua?
ble g?)ld walch was taken from a
pocket in his vest, and his portcmon
naic was also stolen from his pant?
aloons pocket. So carefully had the
thieves ?lone their work that there
had not been convoyed to him the
slightest intimation that his over?
coat was touched by Hiern until they
were gone.
The Tallahassee (Fia.) Sentinel
gives tho following "notis" as a spe?
cimen of the current literal ?ire of
fernandina:
.' . "Notis Strayed from cay ?lock On .
mail hore and 2 Pbemail Soughs sup?
posing to bs in G'orgy. Any Man
that will produce th ira J win pay tin
above Sum of what, lie asks.
BEDFORD B. NIXj
ile-.ideiits at Sabots Si ore.
Tin; burning of the President's
c ins?*rv?tory, on th" Ifcth inst., was
n.groa i public calamity' Theda..^ige
to-thc building an bc repaired for
$1,000 dr So^OOO, but ibo money va?
lue of the phvui - conveys no adequate
idea of the real loss. If will' proba?
bly roach $200,000 or SiOO, OOO. Many
of tuc plant-; were rare, and h.ive
been accumulating for the past iii teen
or twenty years.
- ' -*????
j A Washington correspondent says
"protracted elerie.il service in thc
Departments has ii tendency to de?
stroy the intellectual virility t?f tho
male sex, and endow it with all the
weaker traits of tho. womanly charac?
ter.'' Tn other words, ten years of
Department clerking will come very
near to n?a! i?g a woman ont of
I mau'
itefractory soldiers i? tit. Doipingo
are brought to their sonsos ft? an
amusing manner. ^-Coffee is punish
o<l by having his hands tied behind
him, and then a barrat willi both
ends ont placed over his dusky per?
son. The locality most infected with
flies is honored with his compulsory
presence, and thon his nose is smear?
ed with molasses, and he is left to
the polite attentions of his diminutive
tormentors.
FATAL ExrnosiON o?' A Sma.n.
Century Miller, a colored man. who
was employed at the United States
Arsenal, in Charleston, to unload
shells, was killed, on Tuesday, by the
explosion of one of them. Another
colored: man, mimed Don Badberry,
wiis, by the same accident, so badly
wounded that amputation at the
shoulder was considered necessary.
A WESTERS GEM.The brilliant
youth out in Oregon who penned the
following is not expected to survive:
"The best und bravest of the land
are hunted down by these frothing
hell hounds of fanaticism, who conic
like fiends from the pit, red with con?
flagration and sheeted with lurid
flame, to bring fr<-sh disaster am!
A?al h among us. "
DIED WnmE DANCING.-Madam ile
Teschenberg, wife of the principal
editor of tho Vienna ?fazelte, had just
supped gai':;, at n ball the other even
iug, when await/, striking up she
told her h rc-hand she would just take
three tam .: out ; fter the first round
sue rcquestt d her partner to stop, and
almost immediately expired.
Judge Perkins, of Columbus. Mis?
sissippi, di"d recently, in the eighty
sixth year of bis age. He was li bi ral
in hh-m-ouiribution to charit?. ?Tr
gav: .?' less than ^8(J,{>00, oj which
suffi'lie placed ?StiO'OO? in rh* hands
of tho directors ol the. Tili*-logical
Semi wry at Columbi i, South C;ir<>
ii ...
thai the Otrmird Couipauy, ia view ol
the expiration of their contract foi
tim i"eyance >[ Lim Nor!li Ameri
eau mails,- bu\e applied I?>r exaad i
Moe!, accommodation at Liiverpeol ts
inept ta?> anticipated incr< ?1 se ot' tin
mercantile portion of their budines
with Halifax, Boston and New York
lim Kings!rue *S'<Vr -.tates Li. i* IO
negroes left that place for Texas a rev
day.-e.g.?. it also learns that many mor
who bad been Feasting the two pre
vious weeks on tiic. rations fnmishei
by Ehe gentleman with whom tito;
ha I contracted? left suddenly- :m
for Texas, but fer the in iori or c
"Sous Calina."
The N*?w York Vrihunc sup'posi
thal about 175,0u0 people he,
guashed their teeth ami torn tin :
bair o.cr the result cf the Chica?
scheme, and it confesses that it ibu
not fee! sorry fer them. They spei
their five doll in foolishly, and thc
richly deserve t< > get nothing fi >r th ci
invest incut.
KEMARKABJ.E. Che Cuthbert A?
peu! says; Cur community partie
puted in ratle r a remarkable cerera
ny on Wednesday evening -tl
burial of a man and his wife in tl
same grave. Our fellow-citizen. M
John Landrnm. and bis wife, died (
the daj previously, within live hon
of each other.
Judge Perkins, of Columbus, Mi
sissippi. died recently, iii the eighl
sixth year of his age. He was libel
in his contributions io charities. 1
gave not less than ?S0,()00, of whi<
sum ho placed $60,000 in the han
of the directors of the Tbeologii
Seminary at Columbia, S. ('.
Tim Commissioner of Agrieultu
luis received a letter from a farmer
San Antonio, Texas, stating that
terrible snow storm took place the
on New Year's Day. and the weath
continued very cold. Over 1,0
bead of sheep perished from thee*
on several farms in the neighborhot
Duplex, of the Natelntoches Tim
overheard the conversation of t
sable individuals on Christmas th
during which one asked the otl
what he made during the last ye:
"Nutrm: T worked f(?r de sevent
and the hos., only mu le a fifth; d
fori*, I got nuffin."
The eitizi nu or Atlanta, (?a., lu
resolved to invite Hon. Horace Gr
ley, Kev. Henry Ward Beecher a
Hon. C. L, Vallaudigham to leeti
in Hitit city -the proceeds of thc 1
tures:to be divided among the pi
of the city, after paying the exp:-u
of tuc lecturers.
Col. Montgom rv and -even of
men, win- were sent by the radi
Gov. J'ie;dmr. of Missouri, t ?
fayette County, iti that State, were
rested in St. Louis, on Friday 1
charged with tho nfrurdor of a n
named Clemens, whim they <\?- .
e imped near Lafayette.
Eri'ECT OF IlfOH;FBEXOHr itv
u:, JLkA'.mmAie;. -A paogo <>? wh
wa?? lately se nt from Sm Franc;
I ) Piiila lelphia at a less raie of tra
pori arion than the .same amount
grain can bo taken from Chicago
Philadelphia.
Tho Florida and Cubit Telega
Company, chartered by the hist :
sion of Congres*, have, secure,
grant from Spain giving them
exclusive , right to land a ethic
Cuba. Il is expected t" be in Wi
ing order by the lath of- March.
The National Banks of North
rolina all seem to bc doing a pros]
ons business. Tim National Bani
Charlottce has declared a dividen
ten per cent, from its earning ,
the'past six mouths, and carried
per c rd. to the reserve fund.
A story is told of a mother who
sent h?r daguerreotype to a "mid?
night meeting" in London, hoping
tl mt her abandoned daughter might
seo it and repent. The picture was
passed around in several meetings,
until at hist it met Hie eye for which
it was iutended, and the guilty girl
broke into tears, and set out at once
for tho home of her childhood.
The corpse of an indiana lady was
recontly taken up near Boonevillt.
for the purpose of removing it to tho
cemetery near the town. It was
found to be in the state of petrifac
tion, weighing some 700 or 800
pounds, and taking some eight or
ten men to lift it from tho vault.
The features were perfectly natural,
but hard as a rock.
Tho report of J. Boss Browne,
special commissioner, on the finan?
cial resources of tho States and Ter?
ritories West of the Becky Moun?
tains, gives an estimate of the pro?
duct for 1866 of gold aud silver at
SlOfi,OOO.OOO from" California, Mon?
tana, Idaho, Colorado, Nevada, Ore?
gon, and other sections.
Prof. Hall, of Albany, uko is put?
ting together tho bones of the Cohoes
Mastttdon, says it will stand about ten
feet high, and fifteen feet in length;
that it existed some 25.000 years ago,
and that the Hudson Uiver has made
ul! its channel sine" the monster
lived and died.
A CoBRUVX JUDOS. -Tho case of
Judge Smith, of Oneida < 'ounty, New
York, charged with bribery and cor- !
rnptiou, was taken nj) in rho State
Sena! ; on Friday last. The accused
wu:, found guilty, and his removal
from office recommended.
R.VTnui: DAO. A Gotham journal
states that, the prices of thc absolute
necessaries of life are higher now
than during the same time last year,
flour costing from tw,o to four dollars
moro per barrel, and whiskey nearly
twenty cents more per gallon.
Thc weight of tho flour in a nariel i
is suppose,] to be 10G pound.-. Thc !
Buffalo Board of Trade luis adopted ,
a. resolution requiring 200 pounds in
each barrel, to conform wita tho |
central systern of weight ned men-'
sure?. ^ _ j
rho Attoi-uey-Geueral Luisgiveuau i
opinion tiiat uosoldierwhoactsunder
orders in the capacity of a detective !
can bo held liable by the civil court?
for any property lie may have- seized
and carried away ;:i pursuance of
sneh orders.
A colored child was boru al Knox?
ville, Tennessee, on the 16th, who
ha 1 one ear, no nose, eight fingers
on each hand, eight toes on each
foot, and ono eye in tho middle of its
forehead. The little cyclops lived
but a few minutes.
The Lebanon (Tenn. : lfcrald states
that farmers in that vicinity lind
liri1" difficulty in hiring negro labor
a;. ?125 and $150for the current year.
Thc i.npphy is fully equal to the de?
mand.
A freedman near Riceville, Va.,
about one month ago, to spite. Ins
wife, with whom he had quarreled,
deliberately chopped off the head of
his little son with an axe, and threw
the body into the woods.
A lady, in Rev. Mr. Spurgoon's
congregation, lias given ?20,000 for
founding an institution for vagrant
children. Tho institution is TO be
modelled after those of the Five
Points, New York.
A gentleman named Harris, en?
gaged in planting in tin; vicinity of
Tunica Bend, while en roule?or Mem?
phis, taking bis cotton to market, de?
liberately jumped overboard end was
drowned.
The Boston Tiutnscript says: "Three
conductors ou Hie New York and New
Haven Railroad have received their
discharges for "picking." Oue of
them, it is said, made somo fifty
dollars a day in that manner.
The difference between Whittier's
new poems aud the Massachusetts
schoolmarms is that tho former is ( lie
"Tent on the Beach," and thc latter
are bent on the teach.
According to the annual report of
the Board of Trade for 1866, Eng?
land has 22,261,833 acres of farm
layd under cultivation or sixty-eight
p T cent, of her entire territory.
The King of Prussia has decided to
send Prince Adi ?bert, lately created
m Admiral, to the United States, to
.-indy thc modern improvements in
naval construction.
Daly six planters m i l. sugar this
eason in 'lie Paris!? of St. Mary, La.
The yield is stated al 501) hogsheads -
about one hundredth part of thai of
Thc entire board of State o :'..'< rs
in 1 o*.va, including tho Supreme
Court, commenced the nev, yearby
a temper
ashien fo
introdnc
A Wasl
pcaehm, n
of Gen. I
called fer.
Why d?
d of the emita
insist on i ie ? re
Are they willing for it to r a d: < n
tlc verge of the hated South.
Co to strangers for charity. _ ae
qtiuintnncea for advice, and relatives
lor nothing, and you will always have
a suppbj.
Baron Rothschild g ive 60,000
pounds of bread to' tho Paris poor at
tlc Christmas season.
At a religious meeting among tho
blacks, a colored preacher requested
that some brother would pray.
Thereupon, half-witted Mose com?
menced a string of words entirely
without meaning. At this, the pas?
tor raised his bead and inquired:
"Who dat prayin? Dat you, br udder
Mose; yon let somebody pray data
better acquainted wid de Lord."
A gardener, in the parish of Saint
James, Louisiana, whilst hoeing up a
patch of ground, discovered a small
iron box, containing a cross of the
Legion of Honor, a parchment pa?
tent of nobility mid a manuscript of
moral sayings.
A young scamp, representing him?
self to be the son of Commodore
Vanderbilt, is now traveling in the
South, and obtaining railroad and
[ steamboat passes and other eourte
I sics on the faith of his statements.
j A manufacturing establishment in
Erie, Pa., bas purchased one of the
abandoned oil holes, and is abun?
dantly supplied from it with gris for
lighting and heating purposes, and
with a large surplus to spare.
The incmberlcss member elected to
the British Parliament has such a
wonderful muscular power in his
truncated frame that he can jerk
I himself into his seat without difu
j culty.
j A rich nabob in a Western city, on
being run over, thus consoled him
I self: "Lt isn't the accident," said be.
j "thal Inline1; {hat isn't tho thing:
! but the idea of being run over b}' an
j infernal swill cart makes me mad."
I Minnesota still has left 30,550,000
j acres of publie lauds open to settle
; mon!; under the fi. ??? homestead law
? in that State n area Inrgi rthan the
j whole State of Ohio.
! Josh Billings thinks thrit the flood
jiu the tium of Noah was a perfect
; success, and thnt a similar visitation
j now would be of benefit in some scc
! lions of the country.
i It ofi'm happens, when tho htis
' bund fads to bc home to dinner, that
ore
- ."Fort Hill,*" tlie homestead of the
Lute Hon. John C. Calli.,un. will be
sold at public miction soon.
A dinner was given recently in
Paris, of which the principal dishes
j were shark, horse, dog and rat.
! A new dunce has been introduced,
?called tho "Kiss Cotillion/' It is
I very popular.
j The radic?is haye dropped Ccu.
! (?rant for the Presidency.
! The aggregate capital of tho Bos
! Lon banks is ?11,000,000.
j The London garroters garrote the
i policemen.
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?
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